Manual Software Testing

Will you please tell about the Manual Software Testing ? How many types of Manual Software Testing?

[Kiran Chandar]

Manual testing is the process of manually testing software for defects.

In this testing tester play the role of an end user and use most of all features of the application and ensure about the correct behavior.

Manual Testing Types:



Some detail about Manual Testing:

Manual testing will be used when the test case only needs to runs once or twice.

Manual testing will be very useful while executing test cases first time & may or may not be powerful to catch the regression defects under frequently changing requirements.

Manual testing is less reliable while executing test cases every time.

Using manual software testing it may not be perform test cases execution with same precision.

Simultaneously testing on different machine with different OS platform combination is not possible using manual testing.

To execute the test cases every time tester required same amount of time.

No programming can be done to write sophisticated tests which fetch hidden information.

It is preferable to execute UI test cases using manual testing.

To execute the Build Verification Testing (BVT) is very mundane and tiresome in Manual testing.